The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-15

se' ~ VI
James 5. Richardson, OF New Orleans.
the largest cotton planter in the world, has
this year $4,000 acres in cotton and 1000
acres in corn.
The Monaghan is marching on. Only
the other day We were told of young man
from China who had been graduated with
donors at Yale College and had married
New Haven heiress. And now a ChDaman
has been arrested in New York and sent to
the workhovse as tramp" These repre-
seat the two extremes Of American cIviliZa-
tion, and it appears that the Chinese are
catching on to both.
The State of Maine has an iron-cIac
prohibitory liquor law, and under it large
seizures of liquor were made in Portland on
Saturday and Sunday preceding the Fourth
but enough was left on sale to make several
hundred me1 drunk, says the Portland
Advertiser. FCrty-one cases of drunk .npess
weTe in Cour: on Tuesday morning, but the
machinery of justice was so over-worked
that many were not brought up. OF the
quality of the liquor sold under such circum-
stances there is no question. 1t is the vilest
kind of intOxicaLt.
The business part of Knightsvile Ind,
was destroyed by fire six months ago 1t
had just been rebuilt At O'Clock on
Tuesday morning it was again wiped out.
Twelve stores, three public balls. and post
office and several residences were destroyed.
with total loss OF SOC. 900. less than a third
pf Kpb iS ~.
vile is a mining town. two miles east of
BIszii. The heaviest loser is the Indiana
Mercantile Company, coal operators, whose
loss on stock aggregates SIG, 900 The fire
originated in this store. 1t is doubtful
whether the town will be rebuilt.
"A dispatch from Columbia S. c., says
Mrs. Sarah Strickland, wife of Bradley
Strickland, farmer, and her sister, Miss
Matilda Sibbett. were assassinated by some
person unknown, The two women were
sitting in rocking chairs upon the piazza OF
Stickiand's house when they were shot with
buckshot by some one concealed in a thicket
( on the opposite side of the road. Mrs.
Strickland died in five hours Miss Sib5ett
/ was alive al last accounts, although severe
/ ly wounded. Suspicion rests upon the hus.
band of the murdered woman and a woman
OF bad repute in the Deighborhood, with
whom he has been intimate for some time.
In Litchfeld. Kentucky. at one O'Clock
on Wednesday morning of last week, W.
r. May, distiller and saloon keeper was
called from ris bed by man who said ha
wanted quart of whisky. May went into
the place with the man. An assassin was
m nS ba hr,f
soon as the light fell upon Mays face ne
discharged load of buckshOt into his head
killing him instantly. Subsequent iuvesti-
CATION established that the murderer is
James NJ. Lynch, formerly a yoang lawyer
of that place. but who has been a fugitive
for several months, May cowhiding him
last Christmas after a difficulty over a lewd
woman.
-Gsaver Canyon, Idaho had frst-class
Fourth Of July celebration. The Declara-
tion Of Independence read by a man named
John Hancock, aid Henry Clay delivered
an Grafton. There was big procession in
which the States were represented by thirty
eight young women in White Mother Hub
bards, mounted on black horses. One hun
dred woOdchOpLers marched four abreast
in a big lumber wagon drawn by twelve
yoke of red oxen, driven by the Goddess of
Liberty. In the evening there was an ex-
hioition of fireworks. with war dance per-
formed by one hundred Shoshone and Ban
mock Indiens.
John HoeY, young man OF Jamaica,
l.. l., has just received a check for 5000
from Mr. P. ii. Cassidy, auditor of the New
York, Wood Haven and Rockaway railroad,
under somewhat peculiar circumstances.
Hoey sent in bill for eXpendi:ures-ice
cream. buggy rides, dinners. etc.-during
his courtship of Miss Margaret Semars, an
accomplished young lady. who has just been
married to Mr.. Cassidy. Hoey intended
fOrbiddiDg the marriage and talked of a
breach of promise suit against the young
lady, but being advised that be bad no legal
claim on her, he made out the bill as above
mentioned and sent it to her on the day of
her wedding. As soon as Mr.. Cassidy
heard of the matter be sent his check for
the amount, which Hoey has accepted as a
slight balm for his lost love, but SAYS he
would prefer the girl.
Stanley county, Ky, celebrated the
Fourth at Rocky River Springs, and the
central figure of the celebration was William
Whitley. Esq, native and resident OF
Stanley county. probably the Oldest man in
the United States. Indisputable proof
shows that he is ll2 years old, having been
born in 1775,anG few years ago began
cutting his third set of teeth. FIVE of which
have now appeared. Previous TO this he
had lost all of the second set, not a single
one remaining, and the FIVE that have since
appeared show that they are not the re-
mains of old teeth, and are of softer
material than ordinary teeth. During the
year he has done considerable amount of
farm work and walks about with as much
ease as most men 40 years bis junior. His
father died during the Revolutionary war.
and ''Uncle Billy" as he is Familiarity
called, distinctly remembers seeing some O:
the American soldiers during the struggle.
In 1908, at the age of SO years. he married
and his wife lived until 1881, when she
died at the age of 1O1 years.